Sentences with phrase «from compromising positions»

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President Obama quickly made his position clear: Congress must raise taxes on Americans earning more than $ 200,000 a year as part of any compromise to keep the U.S. from going over the fiscal cliff.

This young man was simply following the gospel and a kind word of warning from his priest which was - «There is no way you are going to wrestle and mount this young lady in compromising positions in a tight High School uniform before I do, get in line sonny!»

Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).

I recently confessed to my pastor and elders a previous failure from a few years ago, I deeply regret my actions and putting myself in the compromising position that lead me to sin the way I did.

Their exemption from military service is simply the compromise position that has developed in a society in which moral objection to war is not unanimously shared.

That is, he set a course that would not compromise democracy for the sake of socialism — a position that set him apart from assorted domestic political sectarians and especially from the Marxist - Leninist establishments and ideological Liberationists who, until recently, commanded the rhetoric as well as the policies in Eastern Europe and the Third World.

I seriously doubt we would have won anything and our top four spot would have been compromised and we would be sitting in a position with no CL football, NO additional money from the tournament and the inability to attract top names, like Cech.

While the England international may have had moments under all three of his permanent managers playing behind the attacking line — most notably his perfectly - weighted pass from midfield up to feed Robin van Persie's spectacular strike in United's title - winning victory over Aston Villa in 2013 — it's a shift in position that has always brought compromises.

If blood flow is compromised during sleep, the mother will automatically wake up,» says Zepeda, who notes that in 30 years of practice, he's delivered over 8000 babies, and never seen a problem stemming from a mother's sleeping position.

From unpopular VAT hikes and obscene bank bonuses to ill - conceived and rushed NHS reorganisations, the various U-turns, volte - faces and compromises of this Tory - led government have left the Labour leader with the ball at his feet and the goalkeeper out of position.

MEPs from across the continent were critical of Britain's decision to exclude itself from the fiscal integration measures, after European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said Mr Cameron's negotiating position made compromise «impossible».

Bombing the airfield and not killing Russian troops could well come from these different positions, resulting in a compromise.

It is not the only front in Mr Johnson's fight to justify the sacking, which could still trigger a slew of resignations from the ACMD, as advisors to the government consider whether the position compromises their research.

What is the Liberal Democrats» stall to be, if it is not a positive social Liberal blueprint for the future, different from the compromises necessary of coalition with George Osborne — the Coalition position?

Indeed, both the Constitution and the Convention require public officers to abstain from all acts that may compromise the exercise of their public office and functions, or are inconsistent with their entrusted positions.»

«Definitely in their position of arch-enmity with the Movement compromises any fairness from them in this matter.

It's also meant to ensure it doesn't «give the appearance of compromising judicial impartiality and independence (including independence from the political process)» while keeping a judge from taking a position on issues that might ultimately wind up before the courts, he argues in the memo.

He says the union knew his position from the beginning, and has the power to change the outcome now by agreeing to a compromise.

In fact, more than 8 in 10 school and MAT heads reported that they regularly compromise or deviate from their original teacher recruitment specification simply in order to get teachers in to fill vacant positions.

This is not the first time in recent months that they've put forth something that represents no change from their previous position, called it an olive branch to their critics, then acted like the dispute is now over, except of course for the unreasonable people who refuse to compromise.

Theoretically, it's a great idea, as your eyes don't move so far from the road ahead to glance at the gauges, but the reality is the steering wheel is too small and many drivers have to compromise on the seat position to make sure they can see everything.

The driver's seating position is low, and from that vantage point, there is a feeling of space and light without compromising the authentic roadster experience.

Bihruz had the misfortune to be discovered in a compromising position with the wife of the local emir, who promptly had Bihruz seized and castrated and banished from his fief.

Review of Louise Lawler's No Drones at Sprüth Magers, her first solo show in the UK for four years Lawler's photographs capture artworks in compromising positions; from a Koons Rabbit next to the refrigerator (Foreground, 1994) to Jasper Johns» White Flag in the bedroom (Monogram, 1984).

Doing ethics this way brings clarity to the debate which our readers seem to support and help to eliminate from consideration positions that no ethical system would support thereby allowing compromise among positions that are ethically supportable.

I am far from alone in always being on the lookout for better ways to do things, and for dreaming up some of my own, but I will never swallow the codswallop that we have to compromise our hard - won independence and position in society in order to access some hoped for, dubious innovations that, it is falsely or naively claimed, can not be achieved except through ABS, especially when the harms of adopting ABS are so obvious and so apparent from the lessons of history, economics, human nature, politics, physics * and philosophy that I sometimes wonder if there is some willful blindness at play.

If you have to compromise on the placement of the speakers because of the shape of the room or location of furniture within it, it's better to position the surround sound channels further back and higher rather than forward and lower (it's disorienting to have ambient background noise sound as if it is coming from in front of you instead of from the sides and background where it belongs).

In fact, cases with a high degree of conflict often benefit the most from the collaborative model, with its emphasis on problem - solving rather than taking extreme positions and refusing to compromise.

He said leadership takes negotiation, and the best negotiators start from a position of strength and work there way to a compromise that lets both sides walk away with something.

Without a steady stream of income from rent, your mortgage could drain you dry or put you in a compromising financial position.